Music Tectonics

What's the official online home of Queen? It's not Queen.com, it's Queenonline.com. Kiss.com? Nothing to do with the band- it's a dating website. Constantine Roussos imagines a better web experience, where artists can claim their own names and fans can find authentic content. He created DotMusic to fight for control of the .music top-level domain on behalf of the music community. What key innovati...

Just after TuneFork's win at the Midemlab pitch session in the Experiential Technologies category, CEO Tomer Shor came by the traveling podcast studio. When you listen to the same song as your friends, how do you know you're really hearing the same thing? TuneFork assesses your unique "earprint-" the frequencies you hear best and those that feel fuzzy- and personalizes your audio experience to com...

Audio for marketing isn't just about jingles any more- it's about a complete sound experience created by ads and the products themselves. This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Veritonic co-founder and COO Andrew Eisner digs into what makes audio for marketing effective. Find out how Veritonic is bringing data-driven decision making to audio, why they turned to machine learning to evaluate audi...

Fresh from ClicknClear's win at the Midemlab pitch session in the Music Discovery & Distribution category, Chantal Epp came by the traveling podcast studio. Chantal is a music licensing cheerleader- really! How did her experience in both licensing and cheer lead her to create ClicknClear? How much untapped revenue is there in licensing music for performance sports like cheer, gymnastics, and figur...

After Legitary won the Midemlab pitch session in the Data & Analytics category, CEO Nermina Mumic sat down with podcast host Dmitri Vietze in Cannes for a chat. How is Legitary prying open the "black box" of music industry royalties and checking the data? Find out on this #podcast dispatch from Midem. Legitary is a 2019 finalist at Midemlab, the pitch competition that launched SoundCloud, KickStar...

Roy LaManna of Vydia stopped by the #MidemTectonics traveling podcast studio to talk about how Vydia empowers the next generation of music creators, managers, and labels. Their platform provides the digital infrastructure for audio and video distribution, content protection, rights management, advanced payments, and data tracking, all in one place. Roy discusses Vydia's video-first approach, how t...

Would you rather work in a busy cafe or a woodland clearing? When you're trying to get to sleep, do you want to hear soft rainfall or an ethereal harp melody? Lonofi lets you compose ambient soundscapes out of simple ingredients- and they never end or loop. Ed Tallec stopped by the #MidemTectonics podcast booth at Cannes to discuss how the app was inspired by research into urban noise, why ambient...

What if your playlist could adapt to how you're feeling? Bosco Bellinghausen created Alissia Music to make music listening more personalized. He sat down with podcast host Dmitri Vietze in Cannes to explain how Alissia learns your personal tastes and preferences and matches your mood with immersive, high-quality music. Alissia Music is a 2019 finalist at Midemlab, the pitch competition that launch...

Music Tectonics at Midem continues! Sophie Ziessel and Myriam Caron stopped by the podcast booth to explain how Muzeek's "augmented composer" provides soundtrack music that can be tailored to fit video projects perfectly. Muzeek is a 2019 finalist at Midemlab, the pitch competition that launched SoundCloud, KickStarter, Soundcharts, The Echo Nest, and more. Listen to our #MidemTectonics episodes t...

Midem is over, but our Music Tectonics at Midem series continues! Listen in as Hazel Savage chats with Dmitri Vietze about how her career began at a little startup called Shazam- maybe you've heard of it- and what her new project, Musiio, is all about. Musiio provides AI solutions to the music industry, making great music more discoverable. Musiio is a 2019 finalist at Midemlab, the pitch competit...

What's keeping you from creating your own new music? Aviv Ben Yehuda designed the game Big Ear to make music creation and sharing approachable for the neophyte. At Midem, Aviv chatted with podcast host Dmitri Vietze and regular guest Jade Prieboy about how music technology can bring people to music creation. Big Ear Games is a 2019 Midemlab finalist. This annual pitch competition launched the like...

Emma McGann is one of the first artists to create and launch her own Amazon Alexa skill. It all started when Emma was livestreaming on YouNow. When she asked her smartspeaker to turn on the lights, the smartspeakers in her fans' homes responded! At Midem, we chatted with Emma and her manager James Plester about how this lightbulb moment led to an Alexa skill that makes it more fun and easy for her...

Music Tectonics at Midem continues with Dan Dewar of Paperchain, a fintech company creating solutions for music biz problems with a real-time payment model. Paperchain is a 2019 Midemlab finalist. This annual pitch competition launched the likes of SoundCloud, KickStarter, Soundcharts, and The Echo Nest. Get to know the startups at this year's Midemlab competition before they break out! Stay tuned...

Tim Exile met up with us in Cannes to chat about Endlesss , a virtual place where you can make and share music in the moment, solo or with friends. Tim's goal is to make music part of the short-form collaborative revolution, the way SnapChat, Twitter and Instagram have changed video, writing, and photography. Endlesss is a finalist at Midemlab, the annual pitch competition launched the likes of So...

Straight from Cannes, a Midem interview with Twitter's Kevin O'Donnell! Kevin heads music partnerships at Twitter, where he works with artists to best market their brands and tell their stories on the platform.  He stopped by the #MidemTectonics roving podcast studio to chat about what twitter lets artists do, and what's next for social media and the music biz. Music Tectonics is at Midem! Podcast...

Listen to Mark Mulligan's electric Midem keynote address, recorded earlier today in Cannes! Mark, a long term music industry analyst and the managing director of MIDiA Research , presents the 10 trends that will reshape the Music industry based on MIDiA's rigorous analysis. What he has to say about the global music streaming marketplace, audience engagement, and music discovery may surprise you! M...

Get ready for Midem with Marjorie Paillon! Marjorie hosts and produces #TECH24, France 24's tech and innovation magazine show. As a journalist, presenter and producer, she covers topics ranging from media trends to American politics. A four-time juror for the Midemlab startup competition, Marjorie gives her take on what makes the competition so exciting, the next surprising source of music tech in...

Why are five thousand music industry pros from eighty countries descending on Cannes? Midem, the leading international event for the global music community, kicks off soon! We chat with Midem director Alexandre Deniot about Midem's role in music business history, and how it's shaping the industry's future. Get a sneak peek at this year's Midemlab, the music startup pitch competition that springboa...

CEO and president Mike Huppe digs into all the ways SoundExchange works to make the music industry more fair and frictionless through the tools they provide and the advocacy they do. In this candid interview, Mike goes in-depth into why he calls the MMA the "Music Almost Modernization Act," what it will take to future-proof the industry, and how SoundExchange is removing friction from clearance an...

Voice interaction is at a tipping point, and Vocalize.ai is there rigorously evaluating voice interfaces in apps and hardware. This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Vocalize.ai founder & CEO Joe Murphy rates the big music streaming services on their voice experiences. Listen to find out how they stack up, what it's going to take to make voice interactions frictionless, and why Alexa is like an...

Cherie Hu returns to Music Tectonics to delve into the week's news!  Cherie digs deeper into why Hip Hop doesn't dominate YouTube's top premieres (a story from her Water + Music newsletter). What does Peloton's licensing problem mean for how the fitness industry uses music? What does Snapchat hope to gain from gaming? Is sacred music the original AR technology? Cherie chats about it all (and much...

DJ culture is coming out of the shadows, thanks to breakthroughs in licensing, hardware, and software. Stephen White, CEO and Chairman of Dubset, lays out financial and legal risks the world's 55 million DJs used to face and how Dubset's derivative content licensing and legal distribution bring DJs (and their 650 million worldwide fans)into the music biz fold. What do DJ mixes offer that playlists...

Karen Allen's InRotation channel brings new music to  Twitch, a live streaming platform designed for gamers. She takes host Dmitri Vietze on a tour of the live streaming landscape, what Twitch users love about the experience, and how successful streamers build a fanbase. Get her take on what Facebook and YouTube are getting wrong, and what's next for music discovery. The Music Tectonics podcast go...

Spotify keeps antagonizing songwriters, YouTube turns interactive, KFC takes marketing too far, and much more. Rock paper scissors' resident music tech experts, Tristra Newyear Yeager and Jade Prieboy, dig into the week's biggest and weirdest music tech news with host Dmitri Vietze. The Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the...

There are seismic shifts taking place in online video. Though many music fans haven't noticed these tremors they'll have drastic effects on music discovery and dissemination very soon. Rasty Turek , CEO and founder of video and music search engine Pex , reveals the emerging plateau of YouTube growth on this episode of Music Tectonics and predicts a timeframe for reaching that ceiling. He also disc...